Global shipments of desktops and notebooks fell by 11.5% year-on-year to 62.1 million units in the second quarter of 2023, the technology analyst firm Canalys says, adding that this followed two quarters when the decline was more than 30%.



In what is a major blow to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's aspirations to make India a force in the semiconductor space, Taiwanese giant Foxconn has pulled out of a deal with metals-to-oil conglomerate Vedanta.

German open source vendor SUSE has said it will invest more than US$10 million (A$14.97 million) to fork the publicly available source code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and make it available to world+dog with no restrictions.

National independent regulator for online safety eSafety revealed that complaints of serious cyberbullying involving minors aged under 14 more than tripled last year compared to pre-pandemic 2019.

UK regulator Ofcom is consulting on plans to make spectrum in the upper 6GHz band available for mobile internet and Wi-Fi services to increase capacity.

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